Stephen Porder

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Porder is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Porder has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Soil Science, 20 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Stephen Porder's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (38 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (20 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (15 papers). Stephen Porder is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (38 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (20 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (15 papers). Stephen Porder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Germany. Stephen Porder's co-authors include Oliver A. Chadwick, Peter M. Vitousek, Benjamin Z. Houlton, G. E. Hilley, Sohini Ramachandran, Alan R. Townsend, Cory C. Cleveland, Gregory P. Asner, C. Page Chamberlain and Christopher Neill and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Porder

76 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

2010 2.1k citations Peter M. Vitousek, Stephen Porder et al. Ecological Applications profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Stephen Porder	2.6k	1.6k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	76	5.4k
Marisa de Cássia Píccolo	3.8k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	857 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	160	6.0k
Christopher Neill	2.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	837 0.7×	139	6.4k
Laurent Augusto	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	923 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	100	5.7k
Linda H. Pardo	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	41	4.6k
Luc Abbadie	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.5×	904 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	81	6.3k
John M. Stark	3.5k 1.3×	2.7k 1.8×	1.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	57	5.9k
Edith Bai	3.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.7×	798 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	125	6.1k
William S. Currie	3.5k 1.3×	2.8k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	73	7.1k
Patrick Schleppi	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	741 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	951 0.8×	118	4.6k
David G. Tilman	1.4k 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	5	5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Porder

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Winbourne, Joy B., Kristen E. Hasenstab‐Lehman, Ashley N. Egan, et al.. (2025). Inga and Lianas Are Key Players in the Tropical Nitrogen Cycle of Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Insights From Linking Rates of Nitrogen Fixation With DNA Barcoding Root Identification. Biotropica. 57(2). 1 indexed citations

Almaraz, Maya, Rebecca Ryals, Peter M. Groffman, & Stephen Porder. (2024). Biotic regulation of nitrogen gas emissions in temperate agriculture. Biogeochemistry. 167(9). 1079–1087. 1 indexed citations

Almaraz, Maya, Peter M. Groffman, Whendee L. Silver, et al.. (2023). Dinitrogen Emissions Dominate Nitrogen Gas Emissions From Soils With Low Oxygen Availability in a Moist Tropical Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(1). 4 indexed citations

Rastetter, Edward B., Bonnie L. Kwiatkowski, David W. Kicklighter, et al.. (2022). N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: Role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry. Ecological Applications. 32(8). e2684–e2684. 13 indexed citations

Porder, Stephen, et al.. (2021). Light fuels while nitrogen suppresses symbiotic nitrogen fixation hotspots in neotropical canopy gap seedlings. New Phytologist. 231(5). 1734–1745. 17 indexed citations

Cavaleri, Molly A., et al.. (2021). Foliar Stoichiometry is Marginally Sensitive to Soil Phosphorus Across a Lowland Tropical Rainforest. Ecosystems. 25(1). 61–74. 8 indexed citations

Neill, Christopher, et al.. (2020). Tropical soybean yield response to reduced or zero phosphorus fertilization depends on soils. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment. 3(1). 3 indexed citations

Almaraz, Maya, Peter M. Groffman, & Stephen Porder. (2019). Effects of Changes in Nitrogen Availability on Nitrogen Gas Emissions in a Tropical Forest During a Drought. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(9). 2917–2926. 7 indexed citations

Becknell, Justin M., Michael Keller, Daniel Piotto, et al.. (2018). Landscape‐scale lidar analysis of aboveground biomass distribution in secondary Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biotropica. 50(3). 520–530. 23 indexed citations

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Winbourne, Joy B., et al.. (2018). Nitrogen cycling during secondary succession in Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1377–1377. 35 indexed citations

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Nagy, R. Chelsea, Stephen Porder, Paulo Brando, et al.. (2017). Soil Carbon Dynamics in Soybean Cropland and Forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(1). 18–31. 29 indexed citations

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Almaraz, Maya & Stephen Porder. (2016). Measuring ecosystem nitrogen status: a comparison of proxies. 1 indexed citations

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Almaraz, Maya & Stephen Porder. (2016). Reviews and syntheses: measuring ecosystem nitrogen status – a comparison of proxies. Biogeosciences. 13(18). 5395–5403. 8 indexed citations

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Cleveland, Cory C., Alan R. Townsend, Philip Taylor, et al.. (2011). Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis. Ecology Letters. 14(9). 939–947. 373 indexed citations

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Peltzer, Duane A., David A. Wardle, Victoria J. Allison, et al.. (2010). Causes and consequences of ecosystem retrogression. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 74(12). 2 indexed citations

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Peltzer, Duane A., David A. Wardle, Victoria J. Allison, et al.. (2010). Understanding ecosystem retrogression. Ecological Monographs. 80(4). 509–529. 282 indexed citations

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Vitousek, Peter M., Stephen Porder, Benjamin Z. Houlton, & Oliver A. Chadwick. (2010). Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions. Ecological Applications. 20(1). 5–15. 2119 indexed citations breakdown →

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Porder, Stephen & Oliver A. Chadwick. (2009). Climate and soil‐age constraints on nutrient uplift and retention by plants. Ecology. 90(3). 623–636. 91 indexed citations

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Porder, Stephen, Deborah A. Clark, & Peter M. Vitousek. (2006). PERSISTENCE OF ROCK-DERIVED NUTRIENTS IN THE WET TROPICAL FORESTS OF LA SELVA, COSTA RICA. Ecology. 87(3). 594–602. 50 indexed citations

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Porder, Stephen, Adina Paytan, & Elizabeth A. Hadly. (2003). Mapping the origin of faunal assemblages using strontium isotopes. Paleobiology. 29(2). 197–204. 36 indexed citations

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